CCG: HEY ASSHOLECCG: CONSIDER OUR "PACT" OVERPCA: wwevve got a pactCCG: NOT ANYMORECCG: YOU ARE DEAD TO MECCG: PAST YOU, PRESENT YOU, FUTURE YOUCCG: AND ABOVE ALL, UGLY SCARFNECKED DOUCHEBAG HIPSTER YOUCCG: WAIT I FORGOT, ALL OF THE YOUS ARE THAT YOUCCG: IF I WASN'T SO TERRIFIED, I'D BE CONSUMED WITH ANGER, AND AS SOON AS I'M DONE COWERING IN A DARK CORNER HIDING FROM THAT HONKING MURDEROUS TOOL, I'M GOING TO HUNT YOU DOWN AND FILLET YOU WITH MY SICKLE.PCA: wwhoa karPCA: this is nothin if not flatterin but dont you think youre comin on a little strongCCG: OH GODCCG: I AM NOT HITTING ON YOU IDIOT, THIS IS HONEST TO GOD PLATONIC ENMITYCCG: LIKE IN THE "I REALLY DO WANT YOU TO DIE" KIND OF WAY.CCG: I AM NOT INITIATING AN ELABORATE CALIGINOUS WALTZ WITH YOU YOU DESPERATE SHIT.PCA: i mean yeah obvviously i kneww you wwerent seriousPCA: i guess i appreciate the effort youre puttin into cheerin me upPCA: i can alwways count on you for some good ironic repartee kar nobody else really gets our sense a humorCCG: UGH, NOPCA: are you busyPCA: you said youd try to make it to lowwaa soon wwell howw about itCCG: DUDE, ARE YOU AN IDIOT, YOU CAN PLAINLY SEE I AM FROM 300 FUCKING HOURS IN THE FUTURE, EVEN IF I WERE REMOTELY INTERESTED, WHICH TO THAT I SIMPLY SAY WHAT THE FUCK.PCA: oh hahaha yeah losin track a the time shit is easy wwhen wwe start riffin like this karCCG: LIKE WHAT? WHAT ARE WE EVEN DOING HEREPCA: im just lonely here and i got major ordeals to keep afloat wwithCCG: I KNOW YOU'RE LONELY, GOD DAMN IT, WHO CARES.PCA: im sayin it wwould be cool to hang out and you said you wwouldPCA: can you put in a wword wwith your past self maybe buggin him to make the trip wwhen he gets the chanceCCG: WAIT, WERE YOU HITTING ON ME BACK THEN?CCG: *ARE* YOU HITTING ON ME?CCG: LIKE AN ACTUAL RED SOLICITATION, IS THAT WAS THIS WAS???PCA: wwhatCCG: GOD DAMN IT, I AM CHEWING YOU OUT FOR WAND MURDER, AND YOU ARE FLIRTING WITH MECCG: MY FUCKING GOD MAN.PCA: hey im not spyin you bein anythin but cagey wwhat wwith this wwhole line a humor and allCCG: HOW ABOUT NO, DIPSHIT, NOT INTERESTED?????PCA: evven if i wwasnt compelled to think you wwere still bein flippant and ironic wwith me you cant exactly outright reject me can youCCG: WHY NOTPCA: cause youre future youPCA: doesnt count unless its present you til then its all fair gameCCG: IS THIS REAL, ARE YOU BEING IRONIC OR SOMETHING, I CAN'T EVEN TELL ANYMORECCG: THE PROBLEM IS, I CAN'T PUT THIS SORT OF BEHAVIOR PAST YOU AT ALL, SO I DON'T KNOW.PCA: just send past you ovver man wwell hang outPCA: its not like im doin anythin right nowwCCG: LIKE FUCK YOU AREN'TPCA: wwhats that meanCCG: YOU'RE KILLING ANGELS NOW, AREN'T YOUPCA: noCCG: YOU ARE KILLING FUCKING ANGELS, RIGHT NOW, IN THE PAST, WITH YOUR SHITTY GUN. I JUST KNOW IT.PCA: wwell uhPCA: therere just so damn many kar and theyre not gettin any less bloody pissed is the thingCCG: THIS IS WHY IT WOULD NEVER WORK BETWEEN US, MAN.CCG: BECAUSE YOU ARE A STONE COLD RETARDED FUCKING IDIOT.CCG: NOT TO MENTION COWARDLY BACKSTABBING MURDERER.CCG: I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU FOREVER.PCA: kar im gettin some seriously mixed signals hereCCG: HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO THEMPCA: wwhat to wwhoCCG: TOCCG: FUCKCCG: I THOUGHT YOU LOVED HER.PCA: wwho man wwhat are you talkin aboutCCG: AND ALSO...PCA: wwhat youre not makin senseCCG: I CAN'TCCG: I CAN'T EVEN TYPE HER NAMECCG: SHE WAS MY FRIENDCCG: SHE WAS MY REALLY *GOOD* FRIEND AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL TO DO NOW THAT SHE'S GONE.CCG: I'M SO UPSET, I'M JUST COMPLETELY FREAKING OUT IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE.PCA: yeah i knoww wwhat its like you wwanna talk about itCCG: FUCK NO.CCG: I CAN'T STAND TO LOOK AT YOUR DUMB PURPLE WORDS ANYMORE.CCG: NEXT TIME I SEE THAT SHITTY COLOR YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT'LL BE COMING OUT OF YOUR BODY.CCG: AND NO, FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK, THAT WAS NOT INNUENDO.CCG banned PCA from responding to memo.
CCG: ANYWAYCCG: THAT'S IT I GUESS.FUTURE terminallyCapricious [FTC] 0:42:00 HOURS FROM NOW responded to memo.
FTC: honk.CCG: OH GODFTC: HEY BEST MOTHERFUCKING FRIEND.FTC: what all seems to be the motherfuckin problem? :o)CCG: OH GOD OH GODCCG: DON'T YOU SEE EVERYONE?CCG: THIS CRAZY FUCKER HAS COMPLETELY CRACKED, I TOLD YOU.FTC: THAT'S KICKIN THE WICKED MOTHERFUCKIN MISINFORMATION, MY BROTHER.FTC: i'm as chill as all what's can be.FTC: NO CAUSE FOR ALARM, JUST MOTHERFUCKIN GONNA SIT AND ZONE THE MOTHERFUCK OUT WITH A PAN RUSTING PIE LIKE AS MY USUAL MOTHERFUCKIN SELF DOES.FTC: honk.FTC: HONK.FTC: honk.FTC: HONK.CCG: OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GODFTC: i'm in your future, best friend.FTC: I KNOW WHERE YOU MOTHERFUCKING ARE.FTC: and what you'll motherfuckin do.CCG: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NOFTC: AND ALSO.FTC: and also.FTC: GUESS MOTHERFUCKIN WHAT.CCG: .....CCG: NO I DON'T WANT TOFTC: i'm all about to be meeting up some friends. :o)FTC: GOING TO GET PRETTY MOTHERFUCKING FRIENDLY AT THEM REAL SOON.FTC: i wonder if you can all be at with me in time and make me get my reconsider on?FTC: MAYBE SPLIT AN ELIXIR LIKE A COUPLE OF CHOICE BROS.FTC: just like we are... :o)FTC: ME AND HIM. Do:FTC: hoooooooooooooooooonk. ;oDCCG: OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCKCCG: I HAVE TO GO

So what do we call this pause? I've been batting ideas around all day. We could go with the obvious choice, the MINIGIGAPAUSE. Or maybe, MEGAPAUSE 2: BACK IN THE MEGASADDLE. Or if that makes too much sense, we could always settle on the MICROTERAPAUSE. As you can see, there are so many incredibly intelligent and meaningful things we could call this pause. Deciding how to refer to the pause is an exercise that I will leave to the reader. Feel free to discuss the matter with friends. Or strangers. Anyone who will listen really. If they start to run away, I strongly recommend you chase them.

Why don't we say that A665 begins on 4/13. That's a fun number that we all can get excited about. I have a lot of catch-up work to do between now and then. Not the least of which is drawing the actual content to be posted. But also a lot of gamedev work. Game production is rolling pretty hot right now. Stuff is being churned out almost faster than I can keep track of. Did I mention? I accidentally started running a game studio a little while ago. Whoops, sorry about that. There are all these people being paid to make things happen, and I have to be like "Yeah, keep doing that stuff, everybody." It's getting pretty easy to lose track of how many people work for What Pumpkin. My last estimate was somewhere between 30 and 1000. The true figure is a very frisky moving target.

A6A6A5, a.k.a. Caliborn's Masterpiece, is actually done. It's probably better to hold off posting it until 4/13, when more content will soon follow aftewards. I am sure pausing on that note for months would mess with your head a lot more than the note we're already pausing on. I sometimes feel I have at least a modest responsibility to manage your sanity. It'll be tough sitting on this content though. Tougher than sitting on all of A664 for the better part of a year. I don't think it is out of line to describe it as the best material this website will ever exhibit. It will be all down hill from there, in every direction. Even up.

Speaking of sanity management, way back when, I was pretty on the fence about posting A664 spaced out over months like I did, vs. all at once. Doing the latter in hindsight probably would have been a fucked up thing to do to the internet though. The GAME OVER fallout alone was a bit much as it was. Including it in tandem with the rest of it? Not sure what to make of that. Let's review the CONTENT CRUSH that would have entailed. Bad Anime -> Game Over -> Sadstuck -> Lowas Quest -> 100 retconned panels of oil -> A bunch of other shit -> Punky Serket -> Fantroll Storytime -> 8 password pages -> The Kiss On Horse Mountain -> and finally -> The Punchline. You know, that's an awful lot of baloney to publish. I think the fell-swoop reaction to all that would have been quite a thing to behold, but also, perhaps an irresponsible thing to do to a hapless fanbase after a year in hibernation. I'm told that in 2015, young people are heavily susceptible to "the feels", and trifling with those forces could be injurious to their future development. Wait, did that just sound like something your grandpa would say? Mother fuck, where did I put my cane. Oh right, I snapped it in half from shaking it at the sky.

I may have been in the process of making a point there, but we're going to have to pick this up another time. The comic isn't going to pause itself!!!

Over the last couple months, I have been surreptitiously collapsing several update horses into single, bigger horses. This means A6A6I4 is going to end a little sooner than previously advertised. Same total page count, but finishing sooner. Please consult the important horse calendar below.

So what happens when A6A6I4 is done? I'm not quite sure yet. I'm still working on everything that comes after that. I've written it mostly, but haven't drawn anything yet. There will almost certainly be another pause, but I'm not sure how long it will be yet. I will let you know after 1/19.